Winnie Fan (Shih-Wen Fan) received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Clarinet Performance at The University of Texas at Austin in 2015. As a solo clarinetist and chamber musician, Winnie has performed in the United States, Taiwan, China, Japan, and United Kingdom. She joined the Round Rock Symphony as Principal Clarinet in 2013 and has been invited to perform with many professional orchestras in Taiwan and the United States. Winnie is an active participant in various summer festivals, including Sarasota Music Festival (2015), Brevard Music Center (2014/15), Montecito International Summer Music Festival (2013), Round Top International Summer Music Festival (2013), and Sibelius Academy Creative Dialogue 5 (2012). At Brevard Music Center, Winnie was named the Bass Clarinet Fellow in 2015. She has also won numerous competitions, such as first prize in the 2014 Brevard Music Center concerto competition, first prize in the 2013 Montecito International Music Festival solo competition, second prize in the 2014 International Clarinet Association Orchestral Audition competition, and the 2013 South Central and Texas winner of the Music Teacher National Association (MTNA). Winnie has collaborated with many student and professional ensembles. As an advocate of new music, she has worked extensively with composers from around the world. Part of her doctoral studies, she explored the relationship between composers and performers based on Kenji Bunch’s Cookbook. She has premiered numerous works, such as On the Arch of a Monochrome Rainbow by Yuanyuan (Kay) He (2016), Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra by Michael Miculka (2015), opera A Woman in Morocco by Daron Hagen (2013), and April Snow by Peiying Yuan (2012). A native Taiwanese, Winnie is originally from Taipei, Taiwan. She moved to the United States in 2010, where she received her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music from The University of Texas at Austin, her Bachelor of Music from the Taipei National University of the Arts. Her former clarinet teachers include Nathan Williams, Richie Hawley, Steve Cohen, Alexander (Sasha) Potiomkin, Wei-Leng William Chen, Pei-Yun Lin, and Eugenia Jin. Winnie currently maintains a large private studio in the Greater Houston Area, Texas. www.winniefan.com
